UFO sighting: Two strange objects filmed flying across supermoon

By R. Siva Kumar

UFO filmed over Arizona

A supermoon-loving stargazer managed to capture what he claimed to be a UFO when viewing the moon in Surprise, Arizona on Saturday night.

On November 12, there were two amazing objects that passed by the moon, according to a posting on YouTube by Rondomon.

"While taking video of the Supermoon, with NexStar 6se telescope, UFOs do a fly by," the cameraman explained.

"After zooming in on the moon I walk away and sure enough UFOs start flying by," he explained. The UFOs appear to have distortion surrounding them, perhaps bending light."

He has even given details of his device: "Camera was a Sony CX500V HandyCam HD, 5X optical zoom, manual focus at .9m, maxview 40 lens for a 38X telescope magnification."

Blogger Scott C Waring called it odd. "A UFO in orbit that has a haze mist around it. The object is solid, because if it was transparent, we would see the light of the moon through it," he said. "I believe that the field around it is due to the alien propulsion, because the haze has been seen in thousands of UFO photos before.

A number of commentators have agreed that the sighting is a ufo. An Anonymous commentator wrote that he saw a strange object pass by the supermoon on November 13, from Phoenix in Arizona: "While stepping outside to take a look at the Supermoon, I also witnessed a UFO in orbit around the bottom left of the moon. Seen from a naked eye, with no telescope, it appeared to look exactly like the video posted above. I could see what appeared to be a black dot flying or passing around the front of the moon for minutes at a time. My boyfriend explained it to look as if it was a little black ant crawling on the moon. So strange but very real."

Other commentators have dismissed the phenomenon as just "Helium balloons."

A user called Jugganaut7 feels that they were just leaves blowing over the camera's lens. He said: "You can tell what you caught on film was way too close to be in space because the focus was way off. So, by all accounts, it is the definition of a UFO, but it really just looks like a leaf blowing in the wind."

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Brightly-lit orange UFO filmed hovering over French coastal town baffles residents

• Clip seems to depict a brightly lit craft in the sky above a Normandy town
• Two bodies of light can be seen with brighter orbs among the orange colour
• Person who filmed the clip believe the lights are connected to one structure
• But sceptics say the source is in fact fires on a mountainside in the background

By Harriet Mallinson For Mailonline

Intriguing footage appears to show a UFO hovering above the French coast.

A video uploaded by YouTube channel, UFO Today, seems to depict a brightly lit craft in the sky above an unidentified Normandy town.

Two bodies of light can be seen with brighter orbs among the orange colour.

Bizarre moment as strange UFO is spotted above village

A video uploaded by YouTube channel, UFO Today, seems to depict a brightly lit craft in the sky above an unidentified Normandy town

Two bodies of light can be seen with brighter orbs among the orange colour

The person who filmed the clip believe the lights are connected to one structure.

UFO Today wrote online: 'One of my contacts in France send me over this video. This was shot today by a friend of him who lives in Edinburgh. He claims the footage is real and a lot of people saw it.

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'The object hoovered above the village for a couple of minutes untill it simply vansihed. the cellphone of his friend just died out minutes before the object disappeared (sic).'

However, many people are sceptical and have suggested the source is in fact fires on a mountainside in the background that is shrouded in cloud.

The person who filmed the clip believe the lights are connected to one structure.

According to UFO Today: 'The object hoovered above the village for a couple of minutes untill it simply vansihed (sic)'

'I believe there a mountain in the background and those are fires,' one viewer commented, 'Try using your head people.' 

'Fires on a hillside, obscured by mist/fog/haze,' another agreed.

A third pointed out: 'It's always the phone or camera battery died in these vids. Does everyone always walk around w camera or phone thats about to die? (sic).'

The video has now been viewed over 14,000 times.

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Alien Abduction, Multiple UFO Sightings Reported In Lancashire

PHOTOGRAPH: Steve Jurvetson | Under CC BY 2.0

By Budhaditya Bhattacharjee 

Police got eight reports related to UFO sightings and aliens in Lancashire, England in the past few years. There was one report of  a man being abducted by aliens in the region as well. A Freedom of Information Request was made for these reports to be publicly available.

Russian Navy has declassified its experiences with unidentified objects.UFO!

ACCORDING TO THE RUSSIAN NAVY, MORE THAN HALF IN THE SEA VIDEO.
Russian navy has declassified its experiences with unidentified objects technologically superior to anything humanity ever built,

Records from the time of the Soviet era, has prepared a special group of Russian Navy, headed by deputy Navy commander Admiral Nikolay Smirnov. It collects reports of unexplained events and phenomena that give it a crew of submarines and naval ships. Documents that declassified, reveal numerous cases in which the UFO was sighted. Former sailor and commander known Russian scientist and ufologist Vladimir Azazel views these materials as extremely valuable.

„Fifty percent of UFO sightings are associated with oceans, lakes fifteen then. Thus, the UFO tends to remain in the water, „he highlighted.

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What It Looks Like To Leave Our Solar System At The Speed Of Light

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What It Looks Like To Leave Our Solar System At The Speed Of Light

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Pilot who flew candidate Obama talks about his UFO sighting

Danziger says many pilots have shared UFO stories with him, and he claims “virtually all pilots believe in UFOs.” He says they are skeptical when it comes to alien abductions and little green men, but, as Danziger puts it, “with billions of stars and trillions of planets out there, ‘ya gotta believe’, and almost all of us do.”

His sighting took place in 1989, and in the article he gives every detail. Instead of trying to summarize it, I thought it would be best just to share it in his words. If you appreciate Danziger sharing his story, as I do, be sure to go to the story on New York Daily Newsand tell him you appreciate his article.

Here is his UFO encounter:

People love to ask pilots questions. But my favorite, and certainly the most interesting, is “Have you ever seen a UFO while flying?”

The answer is yes. And here’s how it happened.

It was April 10, 1989 and early in my career. I was still a first officer at a regional airline. It was about 8 p.m. and we had just taken off from Kansas City International Airport bound for Waterloo, Iowa. It was a beautiful evening, with a full moon, clear skies and crisp early spring temperatures. The weather forecast for Waterloo was as nice, with clear skies and unlimited visibility.

After a short taxi and take-off, Air Traffic Control (ATC) cleared us to our cruise altitude of 15,000 feet. We established a Northeasterly heading, pointed strait at Waterloo, about 200 miles ahead. There were thin wispy clouds all around us, illuminated by the light of the full moon that shone through the captain’s-side window at our left. Despite the presence of these clearly visible wispy clouds everywhere, we weren’t flying through any of them. There was also a white disc dimly but clearly visible through those clouds just off to our right.

We flew on and I commented to Bruce, the captain, about this dimly visible disc. He said that he’d been watching the same thing since we had leveled off. It looked similar to the moon faintly visible though thin fog, except the two were visible at the same time on opposite sides of our cockpit. We looked down below for search lights, you know, the kind that’s sometimes used for aerial light displays or advertising at a car dealer, but there was no beam of light coming from the ground, no search light from an airport either. The captain and I had cumulatively spent many years flying and were accustomed to seeing — day and night — all manner of airplane, blimp, hot air balloon, satellite and bird. But neither of us had any idea what this disc could be.

We spent 20 to 30 minutes at our cruise altitude, all the while staring at this white disc dimly visible through some clouds that we somehow never seemed to fly through. Within about 40 miles of Waterloo, ATC confirmed the weather, still clear skies and unrestricted visibility at our destination as we began to descend. We got busy with our flying duties and for a short while, maybe for a minute, both of us had looked away from the disc, but when I looked up at it again I saw something that has been burned into my memory.

I yelled to Bruce, “Holy s–t.” He immediately looked over from what he was doing. Above the clouds, where the white disc had been, was a now giant red ball. It was big and bright and just sat there above the clouds. It wasn’t intense enough to illuminate us with a red glow but it was still plenty bright. We sat there in stunned silence. We obviously didn’t want to hit it but quickly saw that it was flying parallel to our course. We weren’t on a collision course and we also weren’t gaining on it. Time became a blur as we continued our descent, this giant, red ball holding its course.

We slowly lost altitude and at around 13,000 feet, the brightly glowing ball began a gradual descent, too. As it did, it slowly started disappearing behind those wispy clouds. In about 30 seconds, like a setting sun but not nearly as bright, it vanished behind the clouds. The instant it fully disappeared, hundreds of lights began flashing from within the clouds.

As I looked on in disbelief, the flashing lights were brighter than ever and I could see that the section of the cloud that the glowing red ball had descended behind was starting to stretch apart like a piece of “Silly Putty,” two halves being pulled slowly apart with the middle getting thinner and thinner. This continued until the halves grew so thin that it tore apart and, pop! Everything was gone. The dimly lit disc, the flashing lights, the thin wispy clouds that we had with us for the last 40 minutes; all of it, gone. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky. Only the full moon remained off to our left.

Bruce and I just looked at each other. “Oh my God, what the f–k was that”, was all I could muster. My colleague just stared out the windscreen, mesmerized. We discussed whether we should report what we had just witnessed. After a few minutes, I picked up the radio mic and asked the Kansas City Center controller if they had anything on radar. “Nope, nothing but you,” came the response. “No, not right now but a couple minutes ago, at our one to two o’clock,” I replied. “No,” he repeated, “It’s a slow night. I’ve got the entire sector between Kansas City and Waterloo and you’re all that’s been in it for the last hour.” Bruce and I again just looked at each other, completely dumbfounded. “So for the last say 40 minutes or so you’ve had no traffic at all, not at our one or two o’clock?” I asked. “No sir, not at your one or two o’clock, not anywhere, you’re all there is,” he assured us.

A minute or so later, from over the radio came, “Air Midwest , do you want to report a UFO?” We looked at each other for a couple seconds and Bruce nodded his head. “Yes sir, we do,” I finally replied. “OK, take down this number and call when you get on the ground.”

After deplaning we called the number. “National UFO Reporting Center” said the voice from the other end. At the time I didn’t even know such a place existed, but they took collect calls from pilots and air traffic controllers. Bruce told the person on the other end of the line that we wanted to report a UFO. We were interviewed separately, first the captain and then me. When my interview was finished the man on the other end of the line said that we would never hear from him again and would never receive any additional information, this was going to be our first and only contact regarding the sighting. I asked, “Can I ask just one question, do you think we’re crazy, has anyone else ever reported something like this?”

“Oh no, you’re not crazy at all,” he replied. “This very same thing has been reported by pilots countless times.” And while neither of us had any idea what we had saw one thing we were certain of, it wasn’t from here.

Our airline had no official UFO policy (nor did any that I ever worked for), but at the time we were both young with long and promising careers in front of us. We knew through the grapevine that pilots weren’t supposed to talk about UFOs so we swore the station agent on duty to secrecy and agreed not to talk about our incident to any of our co-workers.

That was more than 25 years ago. Today I’m older, wiser and at the end of my career. In my last few years of flying the subject of UFOs occasionally came up in the cockpit. If it was brought up at all, it was usually by a younger, newer first officer who’d say something with much trepidation. More than a few pilots have shared their UFO stories with me, too. I’m not going too far out on a ledge to say that virtually all pilots believe in UFOs. Little green men, “close encounters”, alien kidnappings,… not so much, but with billions of stars and trillions of planets out there, “ya gotta believe”, and almost all of us do.

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Niet langer science fiction: de eerste vliegende auto is te koop - HLN.be

 Bron: AD.nl

Lange tijd leek het nog regelrechte science fiction, maar nu is het er dan toch echt: een vliegende auto. De Nederlandse autofabrikant PAL-V heeft zijn eerste commerciële varianten te koop gezet. Pas eind 2018 worden ze ook echt geleverd.

PAL-V is een bedrijf uit Raamsdonksveer (Noord-Brabant). De fabrikant werkt al jaren aan de eerste vliegende auto, wat in dit geval eigenlijk vooral een combinatie tussen een helikopter en een auto is. Nu zijn er twee modellen voor iedereen te koop: de Liberty Pioneer en de Liberty Sport. Hier betaal je echter wel flink voor, want het goedkoopste model kost 299.000 euro.

Topman Robert Dingemanse stelt dat zijn voertuig, een soort vliegende driewieler, aan alle bestaande veiligheidsstandaarden en regels voldoet. De auto rijdt op de weg maximaal 160 kilometer per uur. 

Vliegbrevet
Daarnaast kan het voertuig dus vliegen, maar daar is wel een vliegbrevet voor nodig. Ook is het alleen mogelijk om van vliegveld naar vliegveld te vliegen, want alleen daar mag opgestegen en geland worden. Het vliegen doet de Liberty met een snelheid tussen de 50 en 180 kilometer per uur.

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Is er een verborgen kamer in de tombe van Toetanchamon? Italiaanse wetenschappers willen eens en voor altijd duidelijkheid -  HLN.be

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Verbergt de tombe van de Egyptische farao Toetanchamon nog een geheime ruimte? En meer specifiek de grafkamer van de legendarische koningin Nefertiti? Op die vragen willen Italiaanse wetenschappers van de Polytechnische Universiteit van Turijn eindelijk een antwoord vinden.

Het nieuwe onderzoek met de meest recentste radartechnologie zou eind deze maand van start gaan en moet een einde maken aan een discussie die nu al bijna twee jaar aan de gang is. 

Het was de Britse egyptoloog Nicholas Reeves van de universiteit van Arizona die in 2015 als eerste beweerde dat er een verborgen kamer in het graf van Toetanchamon was. Die zou de stoffelijke resten bevatten van koningin Nefertiti, de vrouw van farao Echnaton, de vader van Toetanchamon.

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• "90 procent zekerheid" over verborgen kamers in tombe van Toetanchamon
• Archeologen hopen op 'vondst van de eeuw' in graftombe van Toetanchamon

Volgens Reeves was het graf van Toetanchamon nog niet klaar toen de 19-jarige jongeman 3.300 jaar geleden - in 1323 voor Christus - onverwachts overleed. Hij zou in zeven haasten begraven zijn in de tombe van Nefertiti, die tien jaar eerder was gestorven. Twee plaatsen op de geplaasterde muren van het graf zouden volgens Reeves wijzen op de aanwezigheid van verborgen deuren. 

Radarscans
Na radarscans van de Japanse onderzoeker Hirokatsu Watanabu later dat jaar kwam de toenmalige Egyptische minister van antiquiteiten Mamdouh Eldamaty met de conclusie dat er een kans van 90 procent was dat er twee geheime ruimtes waren in de tombe: één aan de noordelijke en één aan de westelijke muur. En er werd meteen gesproken over "de ontdekking van de eeuw".

Maar een nieuwe scan van de National Geographical Society (NGS) zorgde voor een koude douche. Want die kon de resultaten van Watanabu niet bevestigen. Op een internationale conferentie rond Toetanchamon vorig jaar werd de theorie van Reeves op veel scepsis onthaald. "Er is nog altijd geen doorslaggevend bewijs gevonden voor het bestaan van geheime ruimtes", klonk het bij de huidige minister van antiquiteiten Khaled El-Enany. "Er is nog meer onderzoek nodig."

En dat komt er nu, dus. "Het wordt een rigoureus wetenschappelijk werk, dat dagen tot weken kan duren", aldus de leidinggevende professor achter het project, Franco Porcelli. "We zullen drie radarsystemen gebruiken en frequenties van 200 Mhz tot 2 GHz. Daarmee moeten we een antwoord kunnen geven met 99 procent zekerheid." 

Vallei der Koningen
Het onderzoek maakt deel uit van een groter project, dat de volledige Vallei der Koningen - waar de meeste farao's begraven liggen - geofysisch in kaart moet brengen. Met het meest recente onderzoeksmateriaal zal de bodem tot een diepte van 10 meter gescand worden op zoek naar ondergrondse structuren.

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NASA CONFIRMS: A SECOND MOON IS ORBITING EARTH

Researchers from NASA have confirmed that the Moon is no longer the Earth’s only natural satellite.

 

It has been joined by what is referred to as a ‘mini-moon’ which has been named asteroid 2016 HO3 by the team that discovered it. It is believed that it has been orbiting the planet for at least one hundred years. 

 

 

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While the orbit of the original Moon is spherical, stable and easily predictable, the new mini-moon is showing more irregular tendencies. The mini-moon is much smaller than both the Earth and the Moon and is being tugged around by their competing gravitational forces. This means that it is moving back and forth towards the Earth. Paul Chodas, manager of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object (NEO) Studies at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, explains, "The asteroid's loops around Earth drift a little ahead or behind from year to year, but when they drift too far forward or backward, Earth's gravity is just strong enough to reverse the drift and hold onto the asteroid so that it never wanders farther away than about 100 times the distance of the moon.” The Moon has the same effect on the mini-moon and exerts its own gravitational force which prevents the smaller moon from getting to close to it. “In effect, this small asteroid is caught in a little dance with Earth, ” Chodas concluded. 

 

NASA have been swift to reassure the public that there is no danger posed by the mini-moon either to Earth or to the planet’s primary natural satellite. The scientists believe that it has been peacefully caught between the gravitational forces of the two bodies for at least a century and that it will remain caught in orbit for many hundreds of years to come. 

 

But if the mini-moon has been in orbit for a hundred years, why has it taken astronomers so long to detect it? The reason for this is the extraordinarily small size of the mini-moon. Researchers estimate that it only measures 120 feet across and is no more than 300 feet wide. 

 

 

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NASA CONFIRMS: A SECOND MOON IS ORBITING EARTH

Researchers from NASA have confirmed that the Moon is no longer the Earth’s only natural satellite.

 

It has been joined by what is referred to as a ‘mini-moon’ which has been named asteroid 2016 HO3 by the team that discovered it. It is believed that it has been orbiting the planet for at least one hundred years. 

 

 

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While the orbit of the original Moon is spherical, stable and easily predictable, the new mini-moon is showing more irregular tendencies. The mini-moon is much smaller than both the Earth and the Moon and is being tugged around by their competing gravitational forces. This means that it is moving back and forth towards the Earth. Paul Chodas, manager of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object (NEO) Studies at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, explains, "The asteroid's loops around Earth drift a little ahead or behind from year to year, but when they drift too far forward or backward, Earth's gravity is just strong enough to reverse the drift and hold onto the asteroid so that it never wanders farther away than about 100 times the distance of the moon.” The Moon has the same effect on the mini-moon and exerts its own gravitational force which prevents the smaller moon from getting to close to it. “In effect, this small asteroid is caught in a little dance with Earth, ” Chodas concluded. 

 

NASA have been swift to reassure the public that there is no danger posed by the mini-moon either to Earth or to the planet’s primary natural satellite. The scientists believe that it has been peacefully caught between the gravitational forces of the two bodies for at least a century and that it will remain caught in orbit for many hundreds of years to come. 

 

But if the mini-moon has been in orbit for a hundred years, why has it taken astronomers so long to detect it? The reason for this is the extraordinarily small size of the mini-moon. Researchers estimate that it only measures 120 feet across and is no more than 300 feet wide. 

 

 

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RUSSIAN TV is showing NIBIRU PLANET-X

Wow… it is refreshing to have this information finally going more mainstream. Coming from the western media has been mostly subliminal… and bits and pieces… the Russians are much more forthright on this matter that affects the entire world… in the west, those in the know are preparing to use the Planet X / Nibiru event to take over the world… but they won’t and cannot succeed.

 

 

 

Humans have been jumping timelines through this process… so predicted timings may be off… but the fireballs, the bending magnetosphere, the weird sun activity, even RED RAIN etc… all are continuing... caused from a source, often unacknowledged… we honor the Russians for helping the world out on this matter.

 

 

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High Detail UFO Near Earths Sun Harvesting Energy, Feb 12, 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: February 12, 2017

Location of sighting: Earths sun

 

This UFO was seen this week near our sun and was caught by UFOnearSun of Youtube. I decided to take a screenshot of the UFO itself and darken it with shadow only. This allowed me to see the thee dimensional object this is. The UFO close up photo in the bottom left corner is the result. It has at least eight right angles and the top is larger that the bottom. I have to admit, the result surprised me. I had not expected the detail to come out so well by just adding shadow to it. This is what the UFO truly looks like from the side. This is what NASA is trying to hide from you, but UFO researcher UFOnearSun of Youtube will continue searching, so click on his name and subscribe to his channel. 

Scott C. Waring

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UFO During Sunset Over Normandy, France On Feb 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: February 11, 2017

Location of sighting: Normandy, France

 

A UFO over France was seen with flashing lights and semi transparent as onlookers were baffled at what they were seeing. The eyewitness said he recorded on his cell phone as long as he could, but then his phone suddenly died. 

 

Such UFO lights have been seen before about 20 years ago from a mountain in Taiwan. Many people visiting a temple on the mountain witnessed the UFOs form one by one, as if they were flying in military formation. I will place the video below for you to compare. 

Scott C. Waring-Taiwan

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Defence Minister of Canada Says Governments Need To Tell The Public The Truth About Aliens, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of interview: 2017
Person interviewed: Former Defence Minister of Canada Paul Hellyer

This is the Former Minster of Canada and he has a lot to say about UFOs and aliens. He has seen top secret US and Canadian documents that show photos and written proof of alien contact and how the governments of the world continually hide this information. Paul said enough is enough. Its time to tell the world the truth about the existence of aliens. He is risking a lot coming forward and telling the world about what he knows on national news and he is not benefiting at all from any of it. So if he doesn't benefit and telling the truth only hurts his career and future career in politics....then you know what he says is the truth, because what he knows is that the governments are hiding the existence of aliens...which would be the most monumental scientific discovery  in the history humanity itself. Those who hide it have committed a crime against humanity and should be tried in an international tribunal court of law. 

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Une étrange lumière observée dans le ciel un peu partout en Wallonie: "Tantôt elle bouge, tantôt elle fait du surplace"

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Humans Can Now “Print” Genetic Code and Engineer Life

 

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IN BRIEF

• Scientists' ability to create organisms through synthetic biology is getting easier and cheaper fueling the start of a new era in biology.
• Synthetic biology has already lead to some innovations such as lab-grown meat, advancement in medicine, and even helping to bring back extinct species.

We have learned how to manipulate the code of life. Why this hasn’t received more attention is beyond me.

Synthetic Biology is a multidisciplinary field that often defies definition. Yet despite its complexity, it is a remarkably easy field to apply once you’ve learned the science behind it. From a computer, you can input your desired genetic sequence, print it out, glue it together, put it into a cell and then watch whatever you have created sprout.

Even more astonishingly is that it has also helped provide us with our best insights into how life on earth began, answering questions that have been with us from the beginning. Reason enough to learn a little more about it.

THE FUTURE OF LIFE

The amount of people and money pouring into this field is growing incredibly fast. This is being further expedited by the emergence of DIY bio (do it yourself biology). Labs are springing up all over the world as the tools required are getting cheaper and more ubiquitous. Now almost anyone with a decent enough understanding of the subject can build their own synthetic biology lab and start hacking away at life.

We have also recently discovered new bases that will allow us to do things we never would have dreamed of. All life that we know is made from DNA containing primarily four bases: A, C, T, and G. We have now added X and Y, opening the door for us to create things never before thought possible.

We are already seeing some of what it can do. Lab-grown meat, de-extinction, new biochemicals and medicines, the list goes on and on. Before long it is believed that we will be able to synthetically recreate humans.

We have been altering the genomes of various species since the agricultural revolution, the difference now is in our ability to select specific lines from the code of life and swap them or delete them or put new lines in. This will have a wide range of implications as we learn more about the roles of specific genes while also allowing us to direct and accelerate evolution.

(Glowing microbes grown by Dr. Scott Pownall at Open Science Network, he took the genes from glowing jellyfish and inserted them into Escherichia coli cells.)

The 20th century saw a series of breakthroughs in our understanding of Physics that redefined what we were capable of. It brought about the atomic age, allowed us to explore our solar system, and opened up insights into the universe that fundamentally changed our understanding of reality.

Biology seems to be experiencing a similar paradigm shift. It is allowing us to manipulate the building blocks of life and redefine the natural world, all of which will radically alter our collective fate.

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EXCLUSIVE: 'Secret base for man-eating aliens being built' US official records reveal

OFFICIAL US records have revealed a shock claim that a top-secret base for human-eating aliens was allegedly being built in a remote part of New Mexico.

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The United States Department of Agriculture has released a number of files about alleged alien and UFO activity on land managed by the US Forest Service, including details of the outlandish allegation.

The US Forest Service data was obtained by John Greenewald, founder of The Black Vault website, who obtains and publishes former confidential official data on aliens and UFOs.

Records of the service's Southwestern Region office in Albuquerque, New Mexico, detail a bizarre call from an alleged witness to the construction of an alien base in the Tonto National Forest, near Phoenix, Arizona.

An email was sent by the department to all rangers on December 30 2013, detailing the extraordinary encounter.

The email said: "David received a call this morning at the front desk from a male caller reporting the construction of a secret government installation upstream from the Salt River Canyon past Pinal Creek (Upstream from Roosevelt Lake).

"Aliens and at least one detached head are involved.

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"Caller claims to have seen construction cranes coming out the side of the cliffs, miniature stealth planes and UFOs, aliens and people working together at the site, aliens eating people.

"He found a severed head and claims to have pictures of some of this stuff.

"Caller reported that he is 60, not crazy and doesn't do drugs.

"He said he had already called the 'office at the lake', but he didn't know if those people were turning the other cheek or maybe those people have been paid off."

The records do not detail if any action was taken in response to the strange tip off, but the email added: "Please let me know if there are any talking points to be developed. I'm sure the Phoenix media will be all over this.

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"PS David and I aren't doing drugs either."

There are longstanding claims by alien conspiracy theorists that there are aliens living here on earth, and the government knows all about it, but it is kept top secret from the public for fear of what would happen if they knew.

Bizarrely, this is not the first reference to there being a secret military/alien base in the Tonto national Forest.

George A Filer is a former US Airforce Intelligence Officer, who claims aliens in UFOs were actually aiding the US during the Vietnam War.

He is now the director of the eastern section of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), based in the US, which is the world's largest organisation dedicated to UFO and alien investigation.

In a series of online reports known as Filer's Files, a man called Scott Heckman spoke of a base in the national forest, where scores of people have also "gone missing".

He wrote: "The most major base that I have been able to follow the craft towards is located in the Tonto National Forest. 

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Caller claims to have seen construction cranes coming out the side of the cliffs, miniature stealth planes and UFOs, aliens and people working together at the site, aliens eating people.

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"I discovered this while camping in the Sierra Ancha Wilderness. 

"The UFOs kept flying down into the basin two minutes apart. They flew low, out of the southeast at about two thousand feet above the terrain. 

"During the daytime A-10's use the area for training. Re-fueling practice also occurs here both day and night. 

"These areas have also been plagued with several unexplained disappearances that have occurred in Cochise County over the last 30 years. 

"Cars are abandoned with people's ID; money and keys left behind. 

"Their occupants are mysteriously missing, never to be seen again." 

Some of the more outlandish conspiracy theories include that more superior aliens arrived on Earth, but a deal was struck with them to prevent them wiping us out.

In short, they were allegedly given secret bases to live in with a supply of humans to eat and experiment on. In return for this, the US Government was given flying saucer technology, it is claimed.

There appears to be no evidence for the shocking claims other than people who claim to have escaped from a base, and the stories being repeated on conspiracy forums.

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Alleged bases include a huge underground one beneath Dulce, New Mexico, about 250 miles from the Tonto National Forest, a base for a species of aliens known as "Tall Whites" within the Nellis Airforce base in Nevada, and also an alien/military base at the top secret Area 51 US Airforce site also in Nevada. 

Scott C Waring is a firm believer in the conspiracy theories, and said on his ufosightingsdaily.com blog: "Just on the outskirts of Las Vegas is Nellis Air Force Base, which has a Tall Whites Base near the old firing range area.

"It's a huge base taking up 1,350 square miles! Enough for a small country. 

"So why would the Air Force need such a large area of land? Because they gave some of it to aliens to build underground bases, but sometimes the are outside going for a walk, so the USAF gives them their own space so they don't accidentally encounter a person and kill them. 

"Tall Whites like killing, its in their DNA, they are aggressive even with US solders."

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THEY'RE WATCHING US: UFOs 'are monitoring Earth from inside clouds'

ALIENS are monitoring us from UFOs hidden inside clouds, it has astonishingly been claimed.

Ministry of Defence officials 'DID investigate mass UFO sightings in West Wales village'

The Broad Haven Triangle sightings made national headlines nearly 40 years ago

A school pupil's drawing of a UFO in February 1977

New details have emerged shedding light on a spate of mysterious UFO and alien sightings which gripped a West Wales community almost 40 years ago.

Dubbed the 1977 Broad Haven Triangle mystery, conspiracy theories went into overdrive when reports emerged that 14 pupils from Broad Haven primary school had seen a UFO landing in Pembrokeshire.

The head teacher at the time backed up their claims, saying they had all drawn similar pictures of the craft.

Many others reported being petrified by a strange silver alien.

Now a new novel claims to have revealed details of a declassified MoD document which suggests top-ranking officials carried out a covert inquiry into the mysterious activities.

'Archive evidence'

The Watchers by Neil Spring is said to be based on “true events” and promises to reveal the truth about what really happened at Broad Haven.

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According to the Express, Mr Spring researched the case through documents sent to the National Archives 30 years after the bizarre happenings and after a new witness came forward.

“I visited Broad Haven a sceptic, and came away convinced that some of the locals knew far more about the mysterious occurrences of 1977 than they are willing to reveal,” he said.

'Faceless humanoid'

According to documents held at the National Archive in Kew, the story began one night in April 1977 at 2.30am when Rosa Granville, who ran the Haven Fort Hotel in Little Haven, was awoken by strange noise and lights.

Looking out of her window, she described seeing an object which looked like an “upside-down saucer” in the field next to the hotel and two “faceless humanoid” creatures with pointed heads.

The incident, she said in a subsequent letter she wrote to her MP Nicholas Edwards, left her “agitated and disturbed and not the least bit desirous of another encounter”.

'Inundated with sightings'

On receiving Mrs Granville’s letter back in 1977, Mr Edwards contacted the Ministry of Defence and Flight Lieutenant Cowan, an officer from RAF Brawdy, then visited the hotel.

The MP said at the time: “I am being inundated at the present time with representations about UFOs said to have been seen in Pembrokeshire.”

Other incidents reported in the Broad Haven area at the time included a class of schoolchildren who claimed to have seen a spacecraft near their playground.

Then a family said they saw several UFOs in the space of a week, as well as several sightings of silver-suited creatures.

MoD officials expressed no interest, saying there was no threat to national security.

'Discreet inquiry'

However, among the documents was a letter from the head of the MoD’s S4 wing to the Provost Security Service, the RAF’s internal police force.

The S4 chief wrote: ”I have not even told the Minister I am consulting you” and called for a “discreet enquiry” after expressing bewilderment at the number of apparently “level-headed” witnesses to the strange activity.

Mr Spring said: “(The new witnesses’) testimony rocked the very foundations of the British Government.”

'Bombshell document'

Nick Pope, who worked as UFO investigator for the MOD, said: “This bombshell document shows how the MoD’s UFO project asked the RAF Police to conduct a secret investigation into these mysterious events, while Parliament, the media and the public were being told the subject was of no defence significance.

“Defence ministers were cut out of the loop.”

The disclosures have prompted Tory peer Lord Black of Brentwood to call for a full explanation from the MoD of what it uncovered.

'More answers needed'

Lord Black said: “A number of recently released MoD files leave little doubt that a small number of sightings of aerial phenomena - particularly by military personnel, pilots and air traffic controllers - remain unexplained and unidentified.

“There needs to be further examination of these issues in the hope of learning something new.”

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The sensational discovery of Antarctica are huge pyramids of age is 60 000 years! It is of extraterrestrial origin?

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ENORMOUS UFO HOVERING OVER NORMANDY, FRANCE

On the 11th of February 2017 a man from Normandy, France was walking around in the village where he lives, when he suddenly spotted a unusual object hovering in the sky above him. He took his smartphone to film this object. He captured as much footage as he could until his battery was flat. The object appears to be a very large structure with several lights connected to it. It did not make any sound.

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UFO Project Stargate. CIA documents released millions.

Some 13 million pages of previously classified documents published by the US Central Intelligence Agency on the Internet. The documents were made available online for the first time, after a long campaign, supporters of free access to information.

Among the writings are records of intelligence agencies, investigative studies and documents about the paranormal or the experiments. Complete archive consists of almost 800,000 files containing altogether 13 million pages.

Perhaps among them to find records of Henry Kissinger, who as former presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford served as foreign minister. Available are also hundreds of thousands of pages of analyzes intelligence and scientific materials.

Project Stargate
The less common are documents originating from the so-called Program Stargate (Stargate), which dealt with paranormal powers and extrasensory perception. Other special file is a collection of reports of flying saucers or formula for invisible ink, today informed BBC television.

While most of this information has been publicly available since technically the mid-90s, it was to them very difficult to access. The documents could have been only get through four computers situated at the rear of the library of the State Archives in Maryland, every day 09:00 to 16:30 h.

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US OFFICIAL RECORDS REVEAL TOP SECRET BASE HOUSING ALIENS AND UFOS!

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'ALIENS EATING PEOPLE' - THE FOREST SERVICE UFO FILES

The United States Forest Service which operates over the 154 national forests in the United States and Puerto Rico has complied with a request under the Freedom of Information Act for all records relating to the UFO phenomena. 

 

 

The United States Forest Service responded with several documents relating to some events relating to the UFO phenomena which have occurred over the years. The most extensive report concerns an incident which occurred at the Yaak Air Base in 1952. While the account is very light on pertinent details, it does say that two USAF personnel were witnesses to an extraordinary incident while on duty monitoring air traffic control in the region. The two air force personnel claimed that they had seen dark objects flashing with multi-coloured lights on the horizon. They said that these objects were seen to be fly erratically for approximately an hour before coming closer to their line of vision. It was at this point that they realized that the object was a classically cigar shaped UFO. No explanation has ever been offered for what happened that day, the USFS reported.

 

 The agency also responded to the request with information about more recent UFO sightings over the national forests of the United States, complete with a couple of low-resolution photographs. The body also supplied a letter relating to a highly disturbing story told by a caller who had alleged that there were aliens present within one of their forests that were posing a danger to the public. The anguished caller had relayed that he had witnessed aliens consuming human bodies and it appeared as though the forest workers were turning a deliberately blind eye to what was happening. From the tone of the letter, it does not appear as though the call was taken seriously by the agency. 

 

While the USFS have provided a tantalizing glimpse of the extraordinary sights witnessed in the national forests of America, they were not particularly forthcoming with the details. Naturally, these documents only provide as much information as was necessary to fulfill their obligations under the Freedom of Information Act. More details about these intriguing cases have not been voluntarily offered up which suggests that the real story is much juicier than they are letting on. 

 

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UFO Over Yellowstone Park, A Sign Trump May Sell Its Land Soon! Feb 12, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Feb 12, 2017
Location of sighting: Yellowstone park, USA

UFOs have an important recourse that humans don't...they know the world history and future events, because they have time travel. Traveling to the future will cause them to want to go to the past to see the things that no longer exist. 

What I am saying is that President Trump may be thinking about selling off the Yellowstone park land to pay for his wall or other projects. And if Trump did do this, the park wont exist in the future, so aliens may want to time travel back to see it. 
Scott C. Waring

Person states: 

My friend Shawn caught this on tape around 9am a cloud shaped ufo or something else we don`t know about it was very strange and he was baffled by this mysterious unidentified flying object phenomenon; Could this be a ufo over Yellowstone let me know. 

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Amazing new UFO footage from Mexico: Orb splits into 7 objects

Check out this amazing video of an alleged UFO mothership releasing smaller crafts. This was filmed in the daytime sky above Colima, Mexico on 31st January 2017.

What do you think about this footage? Please leave your comment below!

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Paul Hellyer: ET’s Want To Help Mankind

Former Minister of Defense for Canada Paul Hellyer: Only a well-run, united, peaceful Earth can count on alien friendship. Paul Hellyer speaks about the .

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Black Squid UFO In The Skies Over Argentina

This video from last year left many people to believe that it shows another proof of space alien life. A black ring-shaped UFO, which looked like a sliced squid, was caught on video hovering above the skies of Argentina.

A YouTube clip has brought speculations over the origin of the bizarre phenomenon. It shows a pulsating object flying over Tigre, an Argentinian town just 28 km north of Buenos Aires.

Some believed it was a contrail of an alien war plane moving at supersonic speed. However, others suggested that it could have been chemtrails left in the sky by high-flying aircraft.

Another YouTube user gave a more straightforward explanation. Maria Laura Gal commented that the black ring was a plume of smoke from a cannon launched at Parque de la Costa, an amusement park nearby. She revealed that Parque de la Costa launched a cannon as part of its attraction.

Another one wrote that the smoke came from a special effect at the theme park as part of the Zombie Invasion show.

However, many still thought it was from an alien warplane. It just goes to show that people will believe what they want to believe and that only time can tell whether they are right or wrong.

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Filer’s Files #7 2017 – UFO Crash in 1941 -  PART II

Missie naar Jupiters maan Europa lijkt wat concreter te worden

Caroline Kraaijvanger

Een speciale onderzoekscommissie heeft nagedacht over hoe zo’n missie eruit moet zien en wat de waarde ervan is.

En daar is een fraai rapport uitgerold dat je hier in zijn geheel kunt lezen (maar dat we in dit artikel natuurlijk even bondig voor je samenvatten). Het rapport is inmiddels aangeboden aan NASA.

Buitenaards leven
De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie droomt van een missie naar Europa. En dat is ook niet zo gek, want Jupiters maan Europa is waarschijnlijk de beste plek om op zoek te gaan naar buitenaards leven. De maan bezit – hoogstwaarschijnlijk – een ondergrondse oceaan waarin de omstandigheden prettig genoeg zijn voor het ontstaan en in stand houden van levende wezens.

Aangenomen wordt dat onder de 25 kilometer dikke laag ijs die Europa rijk is een vloeibare oceaan te vinden is.

Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech.

SDT
Kortom: Europa is waarschijnlijk de spannendste maan die ons zonnestelsel rijk is en NASA wil er naartoe. Maar is dat haalbaar? Is onderzoek ter plaatse werkelijk waardevol? En wat moeten we daar dan precies gaan onderzoeken? En welke instrumenten hebben we daar dan voor nodig? Over dat soort vragen heeft een Science Definition Team (kortweg SDT) zich nu gebogen. Het resulteert in een fraai rapport waar je hart waarschijnlijk wat sneller van gaat kloppen, want een missie naar Europa wordt nu wel erg concreet!

Zo zou een lander op Europa eruit kunnen zien.

Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech.

Lander
In het rapport presenteren de onderzoekers een conceptmissie die bestaat uit een Europa Lander. Deze zou – door de schadelijke straling die het oppervlak van de maan bombardeert – tussen de 20 en 40 dagen actief kunnen zijn. In die korte periode zouden de instrumenten aan boord van de lander drie doelen moeten nastreven:
– Zoeken naar sporen van leven op Europa
– Ter plekke de leefbaarheid van de maan vaststellen
– De kenmerken van het oppervlak en de omstandigheden onder het oppervlak vaststellen voor toekomstige missies naar de maan. Welke instrumenten moeten er dan mee om deze doelen na te kunnen streven? Nou, je moet dan onder meer denken aan instrumenten die microbiële cellen en organische stoffen op kunnen sporen. Met dergelijke instrumenten zouden we leven aan moeten kunnen treffen als het op Europa net zo overvloedig voorkomt als op één van de meest extreme en verlaten plaatsen op aarde: het Vostokmeer.

Grote waarde
Dat een dergelijke missie van grote waarde is, staat buiten kijf. “De missie zou onze kennis over Europa als waterwereld – zelfs als we geen overtuigende sporen van leven vinden – enorm vergroten en de basis leggen voor toekomstige robotische exploratie van Europa.”

Europa. Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / DLR.

Uitdagingen
Het klinkt allemaal heel eenvoudig, maar we moeten wel bedenken dat dit een baanbrekende missie is. We zijn nog nooit op Europa geweest. En we hebben op een ander hemellichaam dan de aarde nog nooit direct gezocht naar leven. Ook de ‘planetaire protectie’ is een puntje van aandacht. Bij een bezoek aan een potentieel leefbaar hemellichaam moeten we natuurlijk oppassen dat we dit hemellichaam niet ‘besmetten’ met microben afkomstig van de aarde. Want die microben kunnen later onterecht aangezien worden als ‘Europees leven’ en/of schadelijk zijn voor eventuele levensvormen op Europa. Aangezien Europa gezien wordt als de beste kandidaat voor buitenaards leven in ons zonnestelsel, is planetaire protectie tijdens deze missie zeer belangrijk. Het betekent dat daarvoor protocollen moeten worden ontwikkeld en zeer goed nagedacht moet worden over methoden om besmetting te voorkomen.

Discussie
Al met al moet er dus nog veel werk verzet worden, maar lijkt een missie naar Europa absoluut de moeite waard. Of deze ook werkelijkheid wordt, is afwachten. De komende maanden zal er uitgebreid over het rapport gediscussieerd worden.

Ook de Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie werkt aan een missie naar Europa. Lees er hier meer over.

Dat we Europa binnenkort wel van iets dichterbij gaan bekijken, staat vast. Aan het begin van het volgende decennium wil NASA een ruimtesonde in een baan rond Jupiter plaatsen. Deze ruimtesonde zal 45 scheervluchten langs Europa maken. Tijdens die scheervluchten onderzoekt de sonde de leefbaarheid van de maan door te kijken naar diens samenstelling en de kenmerken van de ijslaag en de veronderstelde oceaan daaronder. Ook zal de ruimtesonde detailfoto’s maken van het oppervlak. Die kunnen dan eventueel weer gebruikt worden om een landingsplek te kiezen voor de Europa Lander.

Bronmateriaal:

"Europa Lander Study Report 2016" - NASA

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'Superflares' Likely Made Proxima b Uninhabitable Long Ago

An artist's illustration of the surface of Proxima b, a roughly Earth-size world that orbits the nearby red dwarf star Proxima Centauri.

Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser

The nearby alien planet Proxima b is not a great candidate to host life as we know it, a new study suggests.

Immensely powerful flares from Proxima b's parent star likely stripped some of life's key building blocks from the Earth-size alien world's atmosphere long ago, according to the study, which investigated the life-hosting potential of planets circling the small, dim stars known as red dwarfs.

Red dwarfs are the most common stars in the Milky Way, making up about 75 percent of the galaxy's 1 trillion or so stellar inhabitants. Whereas red dwarfs are substantially cooler than sun-like stars, they tend to be more active, blasting out potent "superflares" more frequently, especially when red dwarfs are young. [Proxima b: Closest Earth-Like Planet Discovery in Pictures]

The new study took such characteristics into account, developing a new model of red dwarf "habitable zones" — the range of distances from a star at which liquid water should be stable on a world's surface — that considers more than just a parent star's heat.

"By the classical definition, the habitable zone around red dwarfs must be 10 to 20 times closer in than Earth is to the sun," study lead author Vladimir Airapetian, a solar scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said in a statement. "Now we know these red dwarf stars generate a lot of X-ray and extreme ultraviolet emissions at the habitable zones of exoplanets through frequent flares and stellar storms."

This is bad news from a habitability perspective. The team's modeling results suggest that such radiation can strip the electrons off molecules in orbiting planets' atmospheres. These electrons escape into space easily, and they drag the newly created, positively charged ions with them as they go.

Light elements, such as hydrogen, are lost fairly easily via this process. And superflare radiation can kick the "atmospheric erosion" up a notch, driving off oxygen and nitrogen — key building blocks of life — as well, the new study found. 

"Considering oxygen escape alone, the model estimates a young red dwarf could render a close-in exoplanet uninhabitable within a few tens [of millions] to a hundred million years," NASA officials wrote in the same statement. "The loss of both atmospheric hydrogen and oxygen would reduce and eliminate the planet’s water supply before life would have a chance to develop."

The team's work suggests that this fate has likely befallen the recently discovered Proxima b, which orbits within the "traditional" habitable zone of the red dwarf Proxima Centauri. (This star is the sun's nearest neighbor, lying just 4.22 light-years from Earth.) 

"We have pessimistic results for planets around young red dwarfs in this study, but we also have a better understanding of which stars have good prospects for habitability," Airapetian said. "As we learn more about what we need from a host star, it seems more and more that our sun is just one of those perfect parent stars to have supported life on Earth."

The new study was published this week in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

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Super-Fast Spacecraft Could Slow Down Using Alpha Centauri's Starlight as Brakes

Artist's impression of the Breakthrough Starshot project arriving at the Earth-like planet Proxima Centauri b. You can see a representation of laser beams emanating from the corners of this sail.

Credit: Planetary Habitability Laboratory, Univesity of Puerto Rico at Arecibo

Last year, a consortium led by billionaire Yuri Milner and physicist Stephen Hawking announced a plan to get to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to Earth. Called the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative, the plan is to send ultra-light "nanoprobes" to the system in 20 years by accelerating them to 20 percent of the speed of light using powerful lasers.

A group of German researchers — while fully supportive of the initiative — worried that without an important tweak, however, the science might suffer. One of these nanoprobes would be able to dash the Earth-moon distance in just six seconds at that speed. With this in mind, the researchers devised some ideas about how to slow the nanoprobes down so they can carry out some observations when they arrive at their destination (rather than zipping through the system at high speed), potentially spotting Proxima Centauri b, a possible habitable planet that orbits Alpha Centauri's oddball red dwarf sibling, Proxima Centauri.

"The solution is for the probe's sail to be redeployed upon arrival so that the spacecraft would be optimally decelerated by the incoming radiation from the stars in the Alpha Centauri system," said scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Gottingen, led by Rene Heller, in a statement.

"During the approach to Alpha Centauri, the braking force would increase," they added. "The stronger the braking force, the more effectively the spacecraft's speed can be reduced upon arrival. Vice versa, the same physics could be used to accelerate the sail at departure from the solar system, using the sun as a photon cannon."

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The plan is for the spacecraft to go to the star Alpha Centauri A at a distance of about four million kilometers, moving at about 4.6 percent the speed of light. Any higher and the probe would go right past the star, rather than being caught in the star's gravitational field.

If the probe goes in at just the right speed and just the right place, the spacecraft would be attracted by the star's gravitational field and could be swung around the star, similar to how spacecraft in our solar system sometimes move between planets. One option here would be to keep the spacecraft in the Alpha Centauri A system to look at its planets, but the scientists would prefer to also include Alpha Centauri B and Proxima Centauri, the other two stars in the system. 

"The sail could be configured so that the stellar pressure from star A brakes and deflects the probe toward Alpha Centauri B, where it would arrive after just a few days. The sail would then be slowed again and catapulted towards Proxima Centauri, where it would arrive after another 46 years — about 140 years after its launch from Earth."

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The astronomers said they will discuss their ideas with the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative to see if this mission extension could be included — that is, if Breakthrough ever makes it to space at all. The mission is at a very early stage right now and is not guaranteed to fly. The astronomers, for their part, said that they are optimistic that Breakthrough could fly successfully eventually.

"Many great visions in the history of mankind had to struggle with seemingly insurmountable obstacles," Heller said. "We could soon be entering an era in which humans can leave their own star system to explore exoplanets using fly-by missions."

Originally published on Seeker.

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Hubble Has Found the Ancient Galaxies That Gave the Universe Its First Light

The Abell 2744 galaxy cluster

Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble

A new technique that removes the light of foreground galaxy clusters is giving astronomers a direct look at a generation of galaxies dating back to the universe's baby years.

The discovery is considered a key piece of evidence for a critical, but poorly understood period of time when the universe switched from being dark to radiating light.

Scientists theorize that energy from first-generation galaxies transformed the dark, electrically neutral universe into ionized and radiating plasma. But these faint galaxies are not easy to find.

This week, University of Texas astronomer Rachael Livermore and colleagues describe a successful hunt thanks to a new technique that combines deep-field Hubble Space Telescope images with what is known as "wavelet decomposition" — a light-masking equivalent of noise-canceling headphones — to computationally remove light from foreground galaxy clusters.

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"The wavelet transform allows us to decompose an image into its components on different physical scales. Thus, we can isolate structures on large scales… and remove them, allowing objects on smaller scales to be identified more easily," the scientists wrote in a draft of their upcoming paper, published on arXiv.org.

The MACS 0416 galaxy cluster as seen by Hubble as part of the Frontier Fields project.

Credit: ESA/NASA/Hubble

Ironically, astronomers first have to rely on galaxy clusters, which warp spacetime with their massive gravity, to serve as naturally occurring lenses that boost Hubble's resolving power more than 100 times.

By then masking the light, Livermore, University of Texas astronomer Steven Finkelstein and Space Telescope Science Institute astronomer Jennifer Lotz found 167 galaxies that are 10 times fainter than any previously known, a number that shows "strong support" for how many early galaxies would have been needed to re-ionize the universe.

A more direct detection method will come after Hubble's successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, is launched next year.

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The extraordinary story of the entire class who claimed to have spotted a 40ft-long UFO in a field near their school 40 years ago… and how mystery still surrounds the sighting 

• In 1977 a class in Broad Haven said they saw a UFO near their school playground
• When asked to draw the craft the children produced near-identical pictures
• The sighting helped make the seaside town in South Wales infamous for UFOs
• Four decades later and the mystery still hasn't been completely solved

By Luke Barnes For Mailonline

For forty years it's been a mystery in the small Welsh town of Broad Haven.

In 1977 a class of pupils at the local primary school rushed in from the playground, hearts pounding with fear.

Even under exam conditions the pupils' drawings of the UFO were all remarkably similar

They claimed to have seen a strange silver object hovering just beyond the playground.  

The Headmaster, Ralph Llewellyn, thought their claims were just a practical joke.

But the pupils stuck to their story and even handed a petition in to the local police station demanding the incident be investigated.

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One of the pupils, David Davies, still clearly remembers what the craft he saw looked like.

He told the Mirror: 'It was pearlescent silver-grey, approximately 40ft-long, torpedo, cigar-shaped, with an upper domed section that covered the central third of the vehicle which was topped with red pulsating light.'

The craft was described as silver-grey, 40ft-long and topped with a 'red pulsating light' 

The spookiest part of the story came when the headmaster decided he'd try to catch the children out.   

He sat the classmates down, in exam conditions, and had them draw out the 'craft' they'd supposedly seen.

Remarkably, the drawings were near-identical. 

For the 40th anniversary of the sighting UFO enthusiasts made a pilgrimage to Broad Haven.

Author Neil Spring (far left) and this Swansea UFO group remain determined to get to the bottom of the Broad Haven mystery

But the sightings weren't just limited to the schoolchildren, and the area around Broad Haven soon became known for its UFO activity.

Many suspected that the military might have been involved, as there were a number of high-security bases nearby.  

Author Neil Spring recently attended a village meeting where they discussed new revelations that there had, in fact, been a military base nearby which could have been launching an experimental airplane.

However members of that original 1977 class still maintain they saw a UFO. 

Neil Spring is the author of The Watchers (Quercus Books).  

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Zimbabwe school mass UFO sighting – 62 children independently confirm saucer-shaped UFO and alien sighting

62 Zimbabwe children witness something extraordinary

In what is widely considered to be one of the best “close encounter” cases in UFO history, on September 16, 1994, sixty-two children of various races and ethnic backgrounds witnessed an extraordinary spectacle on the playground of Ariel School in the small farming community of Ruwa, Zimbabwe. Students ranging in age from 5 to 12 years old, described (and drew) the same scenario – a fleet of alien UFOs, one of which touched down near their school playground, and two “small gray men with thin necks and huge eyes” who warned the children that humanity should take better care of their planet – or else. Researchers and psychologists, including a noted Harvard University psychiatrist professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, descended on the scene of the sighting and in the end, ruled that the event “seemed to be what it is”. The children had seen something they could not explain – and it terrified them.

Prelude – September 14, 1994 “meteor”

Two days before the Ariel School mass UFO sighting, on September 14, 1994, thousands of Zimbabweans had witnessed a UFO pass across the clear evening sky. In a culture with no widespread knowledge or media coverage of UFO sightings or alien encounters, many felt the object seen in the sky was a meteor or some sort of crashing space vehicle from the United States (despite the fact that some witnesses claimed to have watched the slow-moving light for 2-3 minutes while others claimed it descended and then changed course, levelling off to “follow the tree line”). One witness noted:

“This thing, whatever it was, was beautiful. It had a circular-shaped bright light as the leader, and behind it were tails of light in beautiful colors: green, orange, and yellow. It moved slowly and looked as if it was just above the house. The amazing thing is that it moved absolutely silently.”

Settling on a scientific explanation for their experience (a meteor), two days later, they would rethink what they saw.

The Zimbabwe Ariel School mass UFO sighting

Ariel School is a private elementary school located in Ruwa, about 20 kilometers from Harare, the capitol of Zimbabwe. At approximately 10:15 AM on the Friday morning of September 16, 1994, while teachers were attending a mandatory weekly teachers’ meeting inside the school, the children of Ariel School were sent outside to play on the school playground. One adult supervised the recess that morning, a physiotherapist (Mrs. Kirkman) who operated a small snack bar for the students, selling soft drinks and candies. A wide variety of students of mixed age and ethnic heritage – over 60 black, white, and Asian students – witnessed what happened next.

As the students frolicked noisily around the playground (it was a beautiful, clear morning), several children noticed three objects in the sky (some reported five) above the school. Described as round, silver, and saucer-shaped with lit portals around the perimeter, the objects seemed to move extraordinarily fast disappearing in the blink of an eye and reappearing in another place in the sky a moment later. Eventually, one of the objects landed on the ground about 100 meters from the children.

The object settled in a brushy, wooded area that was uncleared and ruled unsafe for the children to venture into (some children reported that it “hovered” inches above the ground). One of the researchers on the scene described the geography of the  landing area.

“Beyond their playground, which was dotted with several clumps of trees, the rest being mostly cleared ground, there was a bush area. The ground there belonged to the school and although attempts had been made to clear and level it, it really was still rough land: loving grass with thorn and other indigenous bushes, trees growing in higgledy-piggledy fashion, and undergrowth thick and heavy enough to hide a child should he venture there.”

Soon, what the students described as a “small man” could be seen standing on top of the UFO. The occupant of the craft was described as being about one meter (3 ft.) tall, wearing a tight, shiny black and silver one-piece suit (“similar to a wetsuit”), with a slender neck and very large black eyes. Some described the entity as having long hair, a mane, or cape of some sort. It walked down the craft and proceeded in the direction of the children.

As the extraterrestrial entity approached the children, it paused and in an instant, disappeared. Almost at the same moment, another creature (or possibly the same) appeared behind the grounded UFO and then after a brief moment, once again disappeared. Within seconds, the craft lifted off and vanished into the sky above the school.

Many of the smaller children were terrified and began crying for help. The “little man” evoked memories of African legends they had heard about demons and ghosts who ate little children. Some of the children ran to Mrs. Kirkman, who was attending the snack bar, but she did not believe their story, and continued with her duties. A researcher documented the testimony of the first adult witness, the snack shop operator, Mrs. Kirkman.

“Mrs. Kirkman told me that when the children came running into the Tuckshop, talking excitedly about ‘a small man running around with a band around his head and a one-piece suit’, she was totally skeptical. [She later said that she thought the children were playing]”

Upon hearing the children’s story, Colin Mackie, the Headmaster, had the children return to the classroom and sketch what they had seen. By the time researchers arrived on the scene the following day, they had 35 various drawings waiting for them. All of the drawings were similar in their depiction of the UFO and its occupants, illustrating the same disc-shaped craft and small, bug-eyed alien entity.

One of the older girls described the entity she had seen as a creature with a “small nose and a mouth that was a small, straight line” adding that “the eyes were very big and slanting”. Another described the ET as “thin and skinny with a scrawny neck and eyes that were large and oval-shaped”.

Pointing out that the alien entity never spoke to them directly, a few of the older students noted that they had communicated with the craft’s occupants and were informed by the ET that we were destroying Earth by polluting it, and unless we changed our ways, there would be dire consequences.

“Those thoughts came from the man – the man’s eyes.”

Preconceived notions of aliens and UFOs were quickly ruled out – many of the children admitted to never having heard of “UFOs” before the event.

Noted UFO investigator and psychotherapist Cynthia Hind and Harvard psychiatric professor and Cambridge Hospital physician Dr. John E. Mack spent two days interviewing the parents, teachers, and children about their experience. Video of the interviews shows a group of very serious children calmly, and convincingly, explaining what they saw. One witness to the filming of the interviews noted:

“When they were interviewed by Mack, with all his professional skills, it was clear they were telling the truth — their voice, tone, their body language. They were so consistent, they told their stories with such conviction. And they spoke about it in their own language. One child recalled being told by the alien that we should not be so ‘techknowledged’ — why make up something like that?”

Dr. Mack analyzed the interviews and concluded that the children did not experience a mass delusion – what they had witnessed that day was real.

“[The children] experienced a very powerful encounter with these beings and we’re left with a rather disturbing fact that this seems to be what it is and it seems to have no other psychiatric explanation.”

Aftermath

Typically with children’s “tall tales”, experts point out that in almost all cases, the child will eventually admit to the lie. In 2010, the children, who were now adults, were again interviewed about their experience. Sixteen years after the event – not one of the 62 children recanted their story. Here are snippets of what the witnesses, who are now adults, said 16 years after the event.

“It was that face, that craft. It will never go out of my mind.”

“We [the witnesses] met up on many occasions after that and hugged and shook our heads and said ‘that was the most amazing experience of our lives’.”

“It was strange, it was exciting. You don’t see stuff like that every day. That was like a once in a lifetime experience.”

“We *know* we didn’t just make this up. Something definitely was happening. Whether it was UFOs or whether it was who know what else, we can’t say for sure one way or another but definitely there was something that happened there that day and it got the whole school riled up.”

“If there was one experience in my life that I’d like to relive, it would be that particular experience.”

One parent said of her child:

“He never stopped talking about it. He has *never* stopped talking about it. And he has believed all this time that it did happen.”

A teacher professed that she believed the childrens’ story and was convinced that they had witnessed something extraordinary.

“I don’t believe for a minute you could get that many kids to agree to do something like that. I really don’t. I know children well enough, I just don’t think that could happen, so I’m absolutely sure that something did happen there that day.”

Six years after the incident, UFO investigator Cynthia Hind died after a short battle with cancer.

Shortly after the event, Dr. Mack, a tenured professor, was censured by Harvard University. According to BBC, it was the first time in history that a tenured Harvard professor, who was not suspected of ethics violations or professional misconduct, was subjected to such an investigation. He was later cleared and given Harvard’s blessing to continue his research.  A few years later, Mack was struck by a “drunk driver” during a visit to London.  He died on the scene.

Additional information

Progress of documentary

The South African newspaper The Witness reports on the progress of the John E. Mack Institute’s documentary about the Ariel School Sighting.

April 16, 2008

American film maker Randall Nickerson is currently visiting southern Africa to make a documentary that follows up an incident that happened at the Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, in 1994, when 62 children aged between eight and 12 reported seeing a UFO and “strange beings” during their morning break.

Those children are now young adults scattered around the globe. Nickerson is tracking them down and interviewing them about the experience. “Their stories have not changed at all,” he says. “Not what you would expect if they had made it all up.”

So what exactly happened on that day in 1994 at the school in Ruwa just east of Harare? “It was morning break and they were out in the school yard playing,” says Nickerson. “They saw one main silver craft that had four others around it,” says Nickerson. “It came down on a hill beyond the school yard that was out of bounds. The boundary was the edge of the school yard, then it was bush and the hill.

“They ran to the edge of the school yard to see what this thing was. They saw this small creature walk around on top of the craft while another came down to check out the children. He was all in black, with a very tight suit. The children said he had big eyes ‘like rugby balls’.

The children had direct eye contact with this creature. There seems to have been some kind of communication with the children about the state of the world — what we are doing to the planet, the destruction we are causing, although not all the children got this message. Some of the children were traumatized, others were excited. The young children were the most traumatized as they were at the front of the group.

“They all went screaming back to the teachers. The teachers didn’t believe them at first. But then they went home and told their parents who came to the school and wanted to know what had happened.”

Soon afterwards the children were asked to draw pictures of what they had seen. “They did this separately. The drawings were all the same.”

A BBC television crew were first on the scene to follow it up. In November 1994, Harvard professor of psychiatry John E. Mack visited the school and filmed interviews with the children. He was assisted by South African producer Nicky Carter who had already made a short documentary on the subject for the SABC. “I had a half-brother at the school,” she says. “He was off sick on the day it happened, but the children told him all about it and he contacted me.”

Carter has no doubt the children were telling the truth. “When they were interviewed by Mack with all his professional skills it was clear they were telling the truth — their voice tone, their body language. They were so consistent, they told their stories with such conviction. And they spoke about it in their own language. One child recalled being told by the alien that we should not be so ‘techknowledged’ — why make up something like that?”

Mack, a Pulitzer prize winner for his biography of T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) titled A Prince of Our Disorder, was a highly respected psychiatrist. However, when he began researching the phenomenon of reported alien abductions, his fellow academics looked askance. In 1994, when his book Abduction appeared, a committee was appointed to review Mack’s clinical care and investigation of the people who had shared their alien encounters with him. According to the BBC, “It was the first time in Harvard’s history that a tenured professor was subjected to such an investigation.”

After 14 months of inquiry, Harvard issued a statement stating that the dean had “reaffirmed Dr. Mack’s academic freedom to study what he wishes and to state his opinions without impediment”.

In 2004, Mack was killed by a drunk driver while he was visiting London to lecture at a T. E. Lawrence conference.

Mack was guarded in his interpretation of the abduction phenomenon. To one interviewer who said that Mack seemed “inclined to take these [abduction] reports at face value”, Mack replied saying: “Face value I wouldn’t say. I take them seriously. I don’t have a way to account for them.”

In a BBC interview he said: “I would never say, yes, there are aliens taking people. [But] I would say there is a compelling powerful phenomenon here that I can’t account for in any other way. Yet I can’t know what it is but it seems to me that it invites a deeper, further inquiry.”

Nickerson sees himself as taking that inquiry further after being commissioned by the John E. Mack Institute, along with producer Dominique Callimanopulos, to make a documentary incorporating the interview footage shot in 1994 with follow-up material shot in the present.

“I want to present the story objectively,” says Nickerson. “To show the original raw material. That’s what initially interested me about this case. These children all describing seeing the same thing. You can tell they are not lying. But having seen this footage I thought: I need to go to this place, to talk to people, I need to investigate it for myself. Did this really happen?

“The subject has to be approached as scientifically as possible,” he says. “There are questions that we need to ask. It’s a case of presenting the evidence just like court.”

Despite this rigorous approach, isn’t there a danger he will simply encounter those on the “lunatic fringe”? “I have found those are the people who have all the answers, but people to whom something like this has really happened don’t. They have millions of questions. There is a humility about them, they realize it’s not about them.

At the beginning of the project Nickerson set about contacting those people who had been among the 62 children who had witnessed the sighting. They are mainly students in Canada, the United States, New Zealand and Britain.

Tracking them down hasn’t been that difficult. “They are contacting us because of what we put up on the John E. Mack Institute website. What is interesting is that their stories remain the same as in 1994.

“They were affected profoundly,” says Nickerson. “At the time one girl was told by her parents not to talk about it, that she had imagined it all. But then she found other people’s stories on the Internet. She got in touch with them and realized ‘Oh my God, that was real’.

Others I’ve met never doubted it. They say the experience opened up new horizons for them.”

Nickerson cites two students who are now studying in the U.S. “Their father said they would never have done that, but after their experience the children were totally changed, that’s what convinced him that something really happened.”

Nickerson’s first stop during his visit to southern Africa was Ariel School. “I interviewed teachers and workers who were there at the time.” He also came across people from two different schools in the area who had similar sightings on the same day.

Nickerson is now in South Africa trying to track down those living here who were witnesses on that day. He will be here until the end of April following up leads resulting from two radio interviews he has given.

Article from  The Cape Times regarding the documentary

August 26, 2008

UFO sighting in Zimbabwe

By Tom Powell

American film-maker Randall Nickerson is in Cape Town this week seeking inspiration for a documentary he is putting together about a UFO sighting in Zimbabwe in 1994.During morning break on September 14 of that year, 62 schoolchildren between the ages of eight and 12 saw a strange craft land 150 metres from the Ariel School in Ruwa, from which two small beings emerged which were described as having “big eyes like rugby balls”.The children’s individual descriptions of the phenomenon were so similar that news of the sighting spread around the globe. Nickerson was approached with footage taken by the late Pulitzer Prize-winning Professor John Mack, who travelled to Zimbabwe to interview the children after the event.

Nickerson said: “This is a story the world needs to see. Personally, I think it’s moving. I’ve found hundreds, if not thousands, of people who believe it and couldn’t find anyone who didn’t. It blew my mind when I saw it.” Although Nickerson admits the footage of the event makes it difficult to disprove the phenomenon, he doesn’t want his film to be biased. “I don’t want to steer the documentary in any direction at all. I’d rather present all the evidence and let people make up their own minds.”Refusing to believe so many people can be mistaken, Nickerson is visiting southern Africa to shed light on those events.Having visited the school itself, Nickerson is now in Cape Town to track down some witnesses and investigate some “unearthly” sightings that occurred in South Africa, including two UFO sightings in Port Shepstone and Johannesburg in April. Anyone who saw the event in Zimbabwe can contact Nickerson on 082 815 4731 or by e-mail at rsnick@gmail.comtom.powell@inl.co.za. 

Original AFRINEWS report about the incident

Cynthia Hind, UFO AFRINEWS 1994

The Children of Ariel School – Case No. #96. Ruwa, Zimbabwe

UFO AFRINEWS 1994

On Friday 16th September, at approximately 10:15, 62 children from Ariel School, a private primary school in Ruwa (about 20 km from Harare) were in their playing field for the mid-morning break. Suddenly, they saw three silver balls in the sky over the school. These disappeared with a flash of light and then reappeared elsewhere. This happened three times and then they started to move down towards the school with one of them landing (or hovering) over a section of rough ground made up of trees, thorn bushes, and some brown-grey cut grass with bamboo shoots sticking up out of the ground. The children are not allowed in this area although it is adjacent to their playing field and is not fenced off, because of snakes, spiders and perhaps other harmful creatures. One can soon disappear from view while walking here, and there is only one very rough track used by tractors in an attempt to clear this area.

There is a line of electricity pylons and according to one boy, the object followed along this line prior to landing. There is also some controversy as to whether the object _landed_ on the ground or hovered above it. On Tuesday, 20th September, I went out to the school with a BBC reporter and their television equipment, as well as my son and Gunter Hofer, a young man who builds his own electrical equipment, viz, a Geiger counter, a metal detector and a magnetometer, to try and see if the object left any traces behind.

The headmaster of the school is Mr. Colin Mackie, who was most co-operative, and although he had never been involved with UFOs or a believer in them, said that he believed the children had seen what they said they saw.

I was able to interview about 10 or 12 older children and this was recorded for BBC television.

One eyewitness, Barry D., said he had seen three objects flying over, with flashing red lights. They disappeared, and reappeared almost immediately, but somewhere else. This happened about three times. Then they came and landed near some gum trees; Barry said the main one (object) was about the size of his thumb nail held at arm’s length. The reports were similar although some children were more observant than others. The consensus of opinion was that an object came down in the area where they indicated, about 100 metres from where they were at the edge of the school playing field. Then a small man (approx 1 metre in height) appeared on top of the object. He walked a little way across the rough ground, became aware of the children and disappeared. He, or someone very like him, then reappeared at the back of the object. The object took off very rapidly and disappeared. The little man was dressed in a tight-fitting black suit which was ‘shiny’ according to one observant girl (11 years of age). He had a long scrawny neck and huge eyes like rugby balls. He had a pale face with long black hair coming below his shoulders.

I had suggested to Mr. Mackie prior to visiting the school and before the children had been interviewed, that he let the children draw what they had seen and he now has about 30-40 drawings, some of which are very explicit and clear, although some are rather vague. The children’s’ ages vary from 5/6 to 12 years. I have 22 photocopies of the clearer drawings as Mr. Mackie kindly allowed me to page through the pictures and choose those I wanted. Most of the descriptions are similar but some of the craft are very obviously ‘flying saucers’, and I wonder how many of these children have had access to the media. Others are crude but more or less in this saucer shape.

The children vary in cultures: there are black, white, coloured and Asian children. One little girl said to me, ‘I swear by every hair on my head and the whole Bible that I am telling the truth.’ I could see the pleasure on her face when I told her that I believed her. The smaller children from 5-7 years were very frightened at the time and ran shouting ‘Help me, help me.’ When the older children asked why they were saying this, the reply was, ‘He is coming to eat us.’ I should think this applied more to the black African children who have legends of _tokoloshies_ eating children.

Their teachers were in a meeting and did not come out. When I queried the headmaster about this he said the children always shouted and yelled during their playtime and no-one thought there was anything unusual going on. The only other adult available at the time was one of the mothers who was running the tuckshop. When the children came to call her, she did not believe them and would not come out: she was not prepared to leave the tuckshop with all the food and money. Gunter and the men thoroughly examined the ground around where the children had seen the object, but could get no reaction on the geiger counter or any other equipment. If the object was hovering perhaps nothing would show.

I walked, on my own, along the electricity pylons for quite a away, caught up in thorn bushes, trampling blithely over snake holes and discarding all caution. I found no place where some object could have landed and pressed down the foliage. In fact, I should think the bamboo stumps would have been a deterrent. The day was hot, around 33 C (91F)…

Dr John Mack was visiting Zimbabwe at the time of the event, and he spent two days at Ariel School with the children. He also spoke to the Headmaster, Colin Mackie, the teachers and some of the parents. John and his fellow researcher, Dominique Callimanopulos, were able to get through to the parents and teachers and convince them that even if they did not believe the children, it was counter-productive to accuse them of lying. Listen and think about what they were saying, he advised. His particular interest in child psychiatry was also of great use during the questioning and many former hidden memories came to light, something John is sure to make public when he has had a chance to reassess his interviewing.(sic)

There is a lot more to this incident than has been uncovered now and we will report further in UFO AFRINEWS No. 12.

Sources: UFO AFRINEWS Nov 1994, Feb 1995, About.com, John Mack Institute, RANDI, Wikipedia, Reddit, Educating Humanity, Unexplained Mysteries, YouTube interviews of children

UFO Seen Landed On Side Of Road In Small Town In Kansas, Feb 2, 2017, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Feb 2, 2017
Location of sighting: Pittsburg, Kansas, USA
Source: MUFON #82017

Here is an interesting report that also seems to have something to do with the UFO on a semi trailer being transported at midnight to Area 51. This person saw a disk on the side of the road with legs on it. It may be possible that this disk was retrieved by the USAF and taken to the top secret Air Force Base. Sadly we don't have better photos of the the disk. I believe the person taking the photos was either embarrassed to be seen taking photos or was feeling frightened by it. This was along the road in Pittsburg, Kansas last week and does look the same size as the UFO disk being transported on trailer. Click here to view last weeks report videos.
Scott C. Waring

Eyewitness states:

On feb 2, 2017, i was heading east bound on highway 400 in pittsburg, ks. As i was going around the corner, i noticed on my left, parked on side road running parralel to highway 400, what appeared to be a ufo being transported on back of flatbed of semi. To the left of the parked semi, was a highway patrolman parked right next to semi facing highway 400. Around the object, on the ground were orange cones as if it was a construction site. I then turned around and headed west bound to get anotger view just to see if what i thought i seen was true. It appeared to be perfect disc shape and appeared to be so big in size that it was hanging on side of flatbed. I then turned around once again heading east bound again but this time took pictures. This was approximately at 1130 hours cst. I then went to work trying to process what i had just seen. At approximately 2200 hours, i came back the same way to see if the objectbwas still there. It was, however this time it is dark and tge semi lights were on as if they were about to leave.

Also, now there are 2 highway patrolman and there was also a bright flashing light right on side of the object. To someone who has not seen this in daytime, will not be able to see at night because the light was so bright, it made it impossible to see the object at night as if they were hiding something. I started to investigate what i seen and there has been only 2 other reports of this incident. 1 report is supposedly a video from a year ago. Since there were only one legit reporting, they are saying this could be a hoax. It is not. I seen it. Which is why i am sending this. I would like to please know more about this incident if any other reports were made. Attached photos will include 4 photos taken heading eastbound. All photos are sent as they were taken. You will need to zoom in. 

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